Saturday, May 16, 2009

Awards and Crazy Eights

I've been neglectful in mentioning that Kate Gabrielle has awarded me the Friendly Blogger Award. I am surprised and pleased! Check out Kate's many blogs (and etsy shops) for some of the coolest artwork on the web! This award is supposed to be passed on in turn, but as most of the people I would choose to pass this along to have already received this, I'll just say thanks to Kate again.

Now, while we're on memes, I've also been tagged for the Crazy Eights meme by Ginger at Asleep in New York. It has a few extra "Eights" she threw in because weirdly, there weren't eight categories and there should be.

Eight Things I look Forward To:1. Visiting with a bunch of crazy friends this summer2. Watching movies starring my favorite actors that I haven't seen yet3. Watching my nephew grow up4. Seeing my novels on the shelf at the bookstore5. Standing on the beaches of Normandy and standing on the rooftop of the Castel Sant'Angelo6. Visits with my parents7. Releases of previously unreleased Goldsmith soundtracks8. The day they stop jerking the cameras around and doing lickety-split editing in current films

Eight Things I Did Yesterday:1. Watched the end of City of Conquest and some of the extras2. Finally (I think) got a Thomas the Train song out of my head -- it's been stuck there for days3. Had my faith renewed in the police4. worked5. fretted over the stray cat I've been taking care of, who hasn't shown up in four days now. :-(6. spent too much time online instead of writing7. Admired Chris Hemsworth8. and most importantly -- laughed and was happy

Eight Things I Wish I Could Do:1. Go back in time2. Become a Hollywood producer so I could rectify the problem of crappy screenplays getting filmed.3. get my dog to let me brush him when he's shedding4. remodel my bathroom properly5. have enough money to quit the day job and be able to write without financial worries6. Run my own opera house7. Sing opera8. Never have to eat again

Eight Movies I Love More than Any Other1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)2. The Dirty Dozen3. Big Jake4. The Empire Strikes Back5. Raiders of the Lost Ark6. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)7. The Wind and the Lion8. Kiss Me Deadly

Eight Things I'm Gonna Do Today:1. Mow the lawn2. blog3. babysit4. fight this migraine5. listen to Star Trek: the Motion Picture score again6. eat7. vacuum/dust/clean/do stupid household chores8. continue editing a storyEight Things I Promise Never To Do On My BlogAgain:1. Badmouth Cary Grant2. Make no promises3. er... I'm not getting any farther on this category...

2 comments:

That's funny, I didn't even realize the lack of 8 categories in the "crazy 8" tag! I wish you had started it, so we could all answer the movies part-- it seems like that one would have been perfect in the classic film blogging circle :)